Washing machine buyer's guide :
Q. "Do I really need a washing machine?"
You can chose to pay someone 8k/month to wash your cloths.
Or, you can buy a washing machine for 8k and get done with it.
Q. "I heard washing machines don't clean cloths nicely"
In half an hour, it cleans better than what you could have done by hand.
Q. "How much is the electric bill?"
300 watt to 400 watt. Bringing in say, 500 tk /month extra electric bill.
Q. "Does it waste a lot of water?"
The automatic ones use a lot of water. Manual one uses less than your hand wash.
But the worker you hired to wash cloths, wastes a lot of water too, in case you notice.
Q. "So which one should I buy?"
Manual one for tk. 7,000 without spinner, or 13,000 with spinner.
Automatic ones might cost around 20k for top load, or 40k for front.
"What's a spinner?"
This one twists your cloth to drain its water after wash. What we call "কাপড় ধোয়ার পরে চিপিয়ে পানি নিংড়ানো"
"What's the difference between top and front load?"
Top loads are half the price of front load. In top load you open the machine from top and insert cloth. In front load you open it from front.
Front loaders can spin twice as fast than top loaders, and shakes less.
"What's the difference between manual and automatic?"
In manual ones you need to drain-wash-water -- perform the steps manually. Therefore you need to be there to wash your cloth the entire 1 hour, but intervene say after each 15 minutes.
In automatic you load the cloth, turn it on and return to find the machine performed all the steps itself.
If you are low on budget and have time, go for manual. In case your wife is too busy with party, social work or marketing, go for the automatic one.
"Which brand would you suggest?"
Singer for manual. For automatic go for a low priced one. You will be charged for more LED-lights a washer has. LEDs are useless other than to convince an unaware that "it should be something very expensive." avoid those.
That is, don't go for the shiny ones that the seller will try to sell you first.
Or the over priced ones, that doesn't have the benefit.
Go for the tough looking hard working one, that doesn't have much shiny lights in front.
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